December 24, 2009
- Twitter (41)
- Facebook (71)
- Google+
- Comments ()
Admit it. You still love Lego.
You may not be the only one way past childhood to retain a fondness for those colorful plastic bricks. But do you also have easy access to a CT scanner? And do you like to build medical equipment with your blocks?
Well, if you did, maybe you'd pull off something like this 3-D image reconstructed from CT scans of an MRI scanner made of Lego. Cool!
Lego toy MRI scanner as imaged by a CT scanner.
When we first saw the image, we contacted voxel123 on Flickr to get permission to show it to you here. He agreed and also told us he works as a PACS administrator and is a specialist in 3-D post-processing of radiology images. "Thus I subjected the Lego MRI to a CT scan," he explained. "Who wouldn't?" we thought.
Here's the original, unscanned Lego MRI. Merry Christmas!
A Lego toy MRI scanner made for a pediatric radiologist.
- Twitter (41)
- Facebook (71)
- Google+
- Comments ()
Comments
Discussions for this story are now closed. Please see the Community FAQ for more information.